Is there an impending day of reckoning for Australia’s leading small business accounting software developers as global giant Intuit muscles in? That question weighs on the minds of Reckon’s shareholders as the $291 million market cap local squares off against its $16.5 billion US-listed “frenemy”.

This shows how 3D manufaturing is being used on a large industrial scale in the aerospace and potentially the automotive industry. With more efficient use of raw material and production time, will this be where manufacturing will head to in the future?

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